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Rushing Man


From the Chassidic Masters

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev once saw a man running in the market place. "Why do you hurry so?" asked the Chassidic master.

"I am pursuing my livelihood," replied the man.

"How do you know that your livelihood lies before you," asked Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, "and you are running after it? Perhaps it lies behind you, and you are running away from it?"
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Posted: Sep 25, 2005
super
Very nice
Posted By Miron, Opole, Poland

Posted: Sep 25, 2005
Patience
Rabbi Nachman one day encountered one of his disciples who was hurrying home. He asked him:
-Have you looked at the sky this morning?
-No, Rabbi, I did not have time.
-Believe me, in fifty years, everything that is here will have disappeared. There will be another fair, other horses, other carriages, different people. I shall no longer be here and neither you. So what is it that is so important that you do not have time to look at the sky?

-From Teaching of Rabbi Nachman, in The Empty Chair
and as quoted from the Mysteries of the Kabbalah by Marc-Alain Quaknin
Posted By Eric S. Kingston, CA



 


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